Telegram-herald., 1887-07-22
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L9sDes. Ialy IA Dispatch ffom 81.
Stephens. Mess Afrca. says. TIE West
Aifiss Company received report tbAs H.
a ,t-A.sy, TIE Airic4n xp.t rsr las bssn
sa9t Lad - one Of he natives, With shom
"a axf sSi.l.en was bgaunx. IN order -
obtain slpplls-. Another account says the
sts>s@sr oa Which STANLEY va proceeding
% tAs rsiisf Of Emir Bey, vas sunk AID The
explorer drowned
lns report OF stsnls5s death emsnstss
frsm missionary a. Natal. Who received
. RON nsfiys up the county No direct
message has been received from the e1pe-
aitiOn.
Ins rumor - utterly ciscredltsd here.
The laLsst authentic news from him was
from Ar1 simi sud aas ssnt under the date
u June IL would oe impOssi be fer a
native 70 reach Aztadi snd then 81.
homas. since that time. The distance
bet ~sen Maradi and AFawimi alone Is =
thousand miles through lie rcusnest
c0untTy.
Co.Oasl Frederick stranch, president OF
TIE African International Association, tele-
sfapns 70 the United Press representative
rom brusssis, stating that DC has not re-
eeised news OF Stanlsys having bern killed.
stan ief. DC states. left ArnSimi July ) ior
Nade.a.
Inc report Of the death Of Henry NJ.
Stanley created al enormous sensation
here AL Of the newspapers accompanied
dispatches announcing the event with
Y0iumiu0us obituary notices and sketches
OF bis expeditions. His rescue of Or. lAV-
ingst9ne j. dilated On with great precision
ia detau, and The eminent services OF
the supposed dead explorer are recounted
a. length IN lAudatOry language. Ia
spite OF these elaborate tributes 10 the fam
O4s traveller and author however. reports
Ok bis death are dlscredlted bv the papers
Publishing them and even the West African
Telegraph Company. through whose agency
the news was brought, IS unable 20 verify
tie statement. A variety OF theories are
advanced 10 account tor the report but
none Of them has even plausible founda-
ton. As = runOr itself one OF the most
generally accepted, however. Is that =
native who brought the news 10 Matadl, re-
ported that a White Chief had been
Killed. and that the missionary who for
warded the rumor assumed that the
White Chief was Mr.. Stanley. Still, il Is
strange that no one engaged IN maautac-
turing theories TO refute the probability
that missionary was right in assuming that
the report OF Mr. Stanley's death was cor
rect have ventuTed 10 presume that the
story of his having left Aruwimi on June
or 5. can have been untrue. Telegraph,c
mistakes are OF constant occurrence in
countie. where the acme of scientific
knowledge and mechanical skill in guard
ing against them has been reached and why
are they not possible and even probable in
a country where almost every one of the
conditions favorable To accuracy in trans
mitting dispatches are eitheir impaired or
wholly lacking.
The Ring of the Belgrsns has. telegraped
10 a representative of tie United Press in
reply TO inquiry, that neither he nor the
Belgian Government has any knowledge of
the whereabout of Stanley other than con-
veyed In a dispatch received yesterday re-
porting his departure from Aruarmi on
June s. His Majesty feels convinced of the
correctness of that report and gives no
credit TO the rumOr of the explorers death.